Guard 2: Administer the test!
Guard 1: Which of the following would you most prefer? A) a puppy, B) a pretty flower from your sweetie, or C) a large properly formatted data file?

Guard 2: Choose!
Fry: Uh, is the puppy mechanical in any way?
Guard 1: No, it is the bad kind of puppy.
Leela: Then we'll go with that data file!

Guard 1: Correct!
Guard 2: The flower would also have been acceptable.posted by humannaire at 4:28 PM on September 24, 2007 [1 favorite]

Man, I’d like to interact with a parrot. That’d be sweet. I’d do that head bounce thing, y’know? And he could like bob up and down too, with me. At the same time! That’d be fun. Parrots are neat. I’d give him a cracker too. Call him Polly. Maybe put on an eyepatch and have him on my shoulder, argh! Talk to him about how sex feels or the smell of the air on a spring day. There’s all kinds of fun you can have with parrots. They’re neat.

Our motto: AI Now.
This does seem more like machine intelligence actually. The common conceptualization of AI is more like the way we think of ourselves thinking. This is more non-localized mechanization of thinking processes in conjunction with and to benefit human use.
Which, really, looks far more viable and useful, even moreso than say stuck in a “box”, Mycroft Holmes (Adam Selene) or Hal9000, etc. The Holmes was spread out, but still organized within a central pattern and not as mechanical feeling (if my meaning is clear) this is more gears-centric, classification of classifications and grouping of pattern reiteration and such which organizes knowlege into appropriate action and interaction routines rather than some sort of computer enlightenment where it just “wakes up.”

Looks pretty nifty. Wish I knew more about computers.posted by Smedleyman at 5:12 PM on September 24, 2007

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